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  1. Ghost towns scattered across Alaska map - Geophysical Institute

    Oct 13, 2016 · There are at least 100 abandoned settlements in Alaska. That's the number Beth Mikow figured as she wrote her master's thesis for UAF in 2010. Mikow, who now works for …

  2. The Coldest Place in North America - Geophysical Institute

    On January 23, 1971, weather observers at Prospect Creek, a pipeline camp 25 miles southeast of Bettles, recorded Alaska's all-time low of 80 below zero. The temperature at Snag was …

  3. Abandoned Cold War Radar Stations in Alaska

    Dec 8, 2010 · On windy, cold nights a few decades ago, men in darkened rooms north of the Arctic Circle spent their evenings watching radar screens.

  4. Ghost ship artifacts emerge in museum | Geophysical Institute

    Mar 24, 2016 · The captain and crew abandoned the ship, which carried furs from Canadian trappers and a variety of other cargo. Following the ice's capture of the Baychimo, the captain …

  5. Bitter weather may have wiped out reindeer | Geophysical Institute

    Jan 7, 2010 · Biologist Dave Klein first stepped on the island in 1957, 13 years after the Coast Guard had abandoned it. Klein, 82, now a professor emeritus for the University of Alaska …

  6. Bus 142 to embark on final journey | Geophysical Institute

    Oct 28, 2021 · Over the years, the abandoned bus hosted hunters, trappers and wanderers who happened upon the rain-and-bear resistant shelter just north of Denali National Park and …

  7. Giant Chinese Dam May Cause Earth to Move | Geophysical Institute

    Nov 10, 1999 · As the water rises, it will drown more than 1,400 rural towns and villages abandoned earlier by government decree. The water rising behind the dam will power 26 huge …

  8. Rock redwoods in Sutton, stone bird tracks in Denali

    Feb 10, 2011 · A few years ago, Chris Williams found a big tree on the grounds of an abandoned coal mine in Sutton, Alaska. It was six feet in diameter, stood more than 110 feet above the …

  9. When Reindeer Paradise Turned to Purgatory - Geophysical Institute

    Nov 13, 2003 · During World War II, while trying to stock a remote island in the Bering Sea with an emergency food source, the U.S.

  10. Don't Build On A Glacier's Right-Of-Way | Geophysical Institute

    Jun 12, 2025 · Here, as in the Alps, homes and buildings were abandoned as the ice approached. One tragic incident involved the occupants of a farming community that was threatened by …

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